Author: Jack Darrell

For years, the Ketchikan Indian Community has argued that Ketchikan’s nonrural designation prevented tribal citizens from practicing their traditional subsistence way of life.

The Alaska Board of Fisheries voted down a proposal to open a jig fishery for magister squid during their regulatory meeting in Ketchikan.

Podium for public testimony before the Alaska Board of Fisheries at their meeting at the Ted Ferry Civic Center in Ketchikan. January 29, 2025. (Jack Darrell/KRBD)

“Given the complex nature of an ecosystem and the complex nature of one of the world’s largest mines, what the outcome of that is going to be if it moves forward, is really anybody’s guess,” says the Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission.

A crowdfunded sci-fi feature film by Emilio Torres set in Ketchikan will make its festival circuit premiere at the Fargo Film Festival this spring.